Immortal Demonic Path

Chapter 20 Weapon Refining Mission

Nie Qiu went to help him with the matters concerning the weapon-refining apprentice.

Li Changsheng continued to inscribe the formation, extremely cautiously.

He carved various formations onto pieces of wood and stone.

By evening, more than ten pieces had been carved.

When Nie Qiu returned, he looked at the objects on the ground and exclaimed in surprise, "I didn't expect you to be able to carve so many in one day. Are you confident in your ability to forge weapons now?"

"I'm confident now. We'll start refining the weapon tomorrow," Li Changsheng said.

Nie Qiu took out a token and gave it to him: Thirteen, Apprentice Token.

This means he was an apprentice in the No. 13 Refining Room.

"Thank you, senior brother." Li Changsheng put away the apprenticeship token.

He drew water from the well to take a bath and then returned to his room to practice meditation.

I didn't neglect body training or qi cultivation, and I slowly honed myself.

Refine weapons by day, cultivate at night!

Nie Qiu was the same; once he reached the Foundation Establishment stage, he could use cultivation to replace sleep.

The next day, Li Changsheng began refining weapons, with Nie Qiu providing guidance from the side.

  

A raging fire was burning, forging a piece of black iron.

Under Nie Qiu's guidance, Li Changsheng swung the iron hammer and pounded.

"There are techniques involved in using the hammer in conjunction with breathing exercises."

Nie Qiu said calmly, "This iron hammer can also be considered a magical artifact. The recoil force from the hammering can be used in conjunction with breathing exercises to strengthen the body."

"So, this weapon forging and blacksmithing is also a method of body tempering?" Li Changsheng asked.

"Naturally," Nie Qiu said with a smile. "When you refine high-grade materials, you will need to use more spiritual power. If you don't coordinate with your breathing, you will find it difficult to withstand even the seventh or eighth level."

"I see."

Li Changsheng suddenly realized and became very interested in weapon forging: "From now on, leave any hammering work to me."

He was very passionate about body tempering.

Sooner or later it will become an immortal tree that no one can gnaw on!

Under Nie Qiu's guidance, Li Changsheng adjusted his breathing, and a faint spiritual energy from heaven and earth entered his body with each breath.

The recoil force of the hammer penetrated his entire body, and with each breath and inhalation, combined with spiritual energy, it tempered his body.

This kind of tempering is much slower than self-cultivation, but it is superior because it is accumulated over time.

The black iron deformed under the hammer, and some impurities were also shaken away during the hammering process.

After repeated hammering, it had become a piece of pure black iron after a day, with almost all the impurities removed.

"The art of weapon crafting cannot be mastered in a day; practice diligently."

Nie Qiu turned and went back to his room.

Li Changsheng returned to his room to continue his cultivation, and the next day he hammered and smelted ore.

The forging of a magic sword cannot be done with just a piece of black iron; other materials are also required.

This is just an ordinary magic sword. Some special magic swords contain various attributes and require different forging methods.

For three consecutive days, I have been processing materials.

It wasn't until the fourth day that the materials were transformed into pure molten iron.

Fortunately, there are ready-made templates. All that's needed is to comb through the molten iron before it solidifies and imprint the array onto it.

These materials are already at the Qi Refining Realm level, and are considered spiritual objects. Although they are more durable than wood and stone, they are still molten iron, so we still need to be careful.

Multiple materials are fused together, organized with spiritual energy, and the array is concealed within.

He inscribed the Spirit Gathering Array and the Mystic Gold Array on this magic sword.

The Spirit Gathering Array gathers spiritual energy to nurture the magic sword and enhance the power of the user's sword techniques.

The Xuanjin Formation gathers the metal elemental power between heaven and earth, making the longsword even sharper and easily breaking through defenses of the same level.

Li Changsheng finally understood why he couldn't withstand a magic sword of the same level.

Even without mentioning Jin Keming, with the added protection of this formation, it was impossible for him to block a magic weapon of the same level with his own body.

By noon the next day, the magic sword had cooled down and was able to gather spiritual energy on its own. The sword body was filled with a sharp aura, and it was considered complete.

"You have a lot of talent; you succeeded in refining a weapon on your first try."

Nie Qiu praised, "I didn't have your personality back then. I was only half-baked in formations, but I started refining weapons and failed several times."

"It's all thanks to my senior brother's dedicated teaching," Li Changsheng said with a smile.

"Keep practicing, refine more low-grade items, and if you're confident, refine mid-grade and high-grade items."

Nie Qiu said, "In the Artifact Vein, to obtain cultivation resources, you need to refine magical artifacts. Each magical artifact rewards you with one Qi and Blood Pill, and ten artifacts reward you with one Qi Refining Pill."

"I will try my best," Li Changsheng said.

"Once you can refine high-grade magic weapons, I'll take you on refining missions; that's the real money," Nie Qiu said.

"Refining missions?" Li Changsheng asked curiously. "Sect missions? I've heard that Spirit Sword Peak has missions like catching demons and finding spiritual herbs."

"Yes, each branch has its own tasks, and the disciples can accept them at will."

Nie Qiu explained, "The Dan lineage refines pills, and the Qi lineage refines weapons. There are many cultivators outside who don't know how to refine weapons, so they entrust their work to us. Sometimes we even have to leave our sect to refine weapons at their homes. Generally, the reward for this is generous, and half of it goes to the sect."

Although half of it has to be given to the sect, it yields more resources than refining magical artifacts within the sect.

"Won't it be dangerous outside?" Li Changsheng asked.

"Generally not, unless someone wants to renege on their debt, refuse to pay, or even kill someone to cover it up. Such cases are extremely rare; I've never encountered one."

Nie Qiu said, "The disciples of Lingjian Peak are in danger. They fight and kill demons outside, and they never know when they will lose their lives. Of course, they get more rewards."

"That's to be expected; they risked their lives for it," Li Changsheng said.

"Yes, it was earned with one's life," Nie Qiu sighed.

The two chatted about weapon crafting for a while longer before returning to their rooms to cultivate.

The next day, Li Changsheng continued refining the weapon. He wanted to use all the formations several times to thoroughly master them.

After mastering the crafting of low-grade magical artifacts, he sped up his pace.

After Nie Qiu finished refining each weapon, he would come and give him pointers on weapon crafting.

His physique also slowly improved during the weapon forging process.

Focus on refining weapons and ignore the affairs of the outside world.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. Li Changsheng reached the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining and the late stage of the seventh level of Body Refinement.

His spiritual power has been honed to its limit and is about to break through to the eighth level.

Now, he is proficient in forging mid-grade magic swords and has mastered various formations. He has begun to forge high-grade magic swords.

The high-quality materials were quite troublesome to process, and it took him half a month to finish.

The flames of a smelting furnace are ultimately just ordinary fire; they are too slow to melt materials.

He also crafted three arrays: the Five Elements Bewildering Array, the Illusion Array, and the Spirit Void Sword Array, which he stored in his storage bag. He could set up the array whenever he needed to use it.

In the past six months, Niu Wendao had not come looking for him. Li Changsheng occasionally went to the library to read books, and he did hear about Niu Wendao's legendary genius.

In the Three Sects Martial Arts Tournament, Niu Wendao defeated the ninth level of Qi Refining and Changchun, winning first place and becoming the number one genius.

Changchun, who claimed to have mastered Qi cultivation in seven days and was the successor to the sect leader, turned out to be no match for Niu Wendao.

After hearing his words, Niu Wendao became very polite to everyone, extremely filial to his master, and extremely respectful to his senior brothers and sisters.

He did a perfect job; some even said that if he weren't a demon, he would have been the one to succeed as sect leader.

But Niu Wendao's legend has only just begun. He often leads his fellow disciples down the mountain to slay demons and monsters, identifying himself as a human.

He's very much like a human being!

If he weren't still in the body of a blue ox and unable to transform, then he would be no different from a human.

As for his friend, no one mentioned him, and Niu Wendao never mentioned him to anyone, as if he had forgotten about him.

Li Changsheng was relieved that he was finally free from the attention.

"Chang Sheng, I've found a good job."

Nie Qiu returned from the mission hall and said, "If we forge a Foundation Establishment sword from a piece of century-old cold iron, the reward will be a bottle of True Essence Pills. The other party also wants to forge two Qi Refining Realm swords, and the reward will be two bottles of high-grade Qi Refining Pills. Let's go."

"How far is it?" Li Changsheng asked.

"Not far, just thirty miles away in Zhongyang City."

(End of this chapter)